does diet sugar attracts ants?

Question

i know ants love sweet food.....if i spill some diet coke, is it going to attract ants? i wonder if ants take diet sugar.......

Answer 1

Some non sugar sweeteners started off from some chemist's lab as ant poison. They had to fool the ant into believing it is sugar.

It didnt work on ants on experiments apparently. These ants are smart.
How? Ants, and other insects, have a slightly different taste receptor for sweetness, aspartame doesn't trick them the way it tricks mammals

But wait, when these sugars are wet, the ants could not distinguish it from the real sugar. So one gardening trick is to spread moistened aspartame granules in areas frequented by ants.

Back to your question. The common ant attractors are sweets and grease.
I found a website which talks about diet sugar in general and ants. Read at your own discretion because these are anecdotal reports, in short, testimonials.
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We found later that small black ants would not eat the aspartame. It was determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they would quickly take it back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24 hours, usually. I have found that sometimes it will kill them, and sometimes it does not. Not sure why, may be slightly different species of ants or something.
Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison did not work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a light rain. It was just a sprinkle, enough to moisten the Nutrasweet and ground, but not enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of them grabbing it and taking it back into the mound. When I checked the mound 2 days later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I even dug the mound up some, and still saw none of them.
How does it Work: Aspartame is a neuropoison. It most likely kills the ants by interfering with their nervous system. It could be direct, like stopping their heart, or something more subtle like killing their sense of taste so they can’t figure out what is eatable, or smell, so they can’t follow their trails, or mis-identify their colonies members, so they start fighting each other. Not sure what causes them to end up dying, just know that for many species of ants it will kill them quickly and effectively.
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http://magnoliazz.blogspot.com/2007/09/got-ants-got-diet-coke.html
www.dorway.com

Answer 2

Ants Aspartame

Answer 3

universal coke will do a extra helpful pastime because it incorporates a great extreme quantity of sugar, while weight loss plan coke would not. Ants can hit upon those sugars surely. good success on the test.

Answer 4

yes they do